Episode #379

Episode #379

News Items

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• DNA Half Life
• Simulated Universe
• Supersonic Jump
• Russian Geoglyph

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Hulda Clarke

Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss

• http://www.jamyianswiss.com/index.htm

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Fiction

  The 1926 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Johannes Fibiger for his discovery of ‘a cure for cancer.’http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1926/

• Item #2 Science

  The New York Times announced that the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics was to be shared by Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, but they never received the award, it is rumored because neither man would consent to share the award with the other. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F03E7D91239E333A25755C0A9679D946496D6CF

• Item #3 Science

  The 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine was shared by Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz for the development of the frontal lobotomy. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1949/

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘You can do magic with science, but you can’t do science with magic.’- Erika Dunning (Brian Dunning’s daughter)